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From: Mr.T on 23 Jun 2010 18:35

"F Murtz" <haggisz(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Engines must work upside down, I just watched half of the poseidon
> adventure and after the ship turned completely upside down the lights
> stayed on.

And battery powered emergency lights are mandatory of course. And it's not
hard to make an internal combustion engine work upside down anyway. But what
has that got to do with Hollywood scriptwriters?
(but yes I assume you forgot the :-)

MrT.


From: veritas on 23 Jun 2010 20:56
On 23/06/2010 8:37 PM, Noddy wrote:
> "veritas"<veritas(a)ghntk.com> wrote in message
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>
>> *I reckon it could have been done with the right tunnel and more Minis*
>
> I do to, provided they were able to approach the tunnel walls at something
> near a right angle.

What'd help would be to first roll up 90 deg in the opposite direction
then upon return gain speed and better approach angle for the 'intended'
360 roll. Basically a 'corkscrew' manoeuvre.

It works well that way in many slow aircraft.
From: Noddy on 23 Jun 2010 22:44

"veritas" <veritas(a)ghntk.com> wrote in message
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> It works well that way in many slow aircraft.

It'd be a pretty average aircraft that I personally wouldn't want to fly in
if that's the only way they could manage one :)

Aircraft have a pretty distinct advantage over a car in the case of such
stunts in that they're not fixed to a solid surface. They can drop a hundred
feet in altitude during the manoeuvre and provided they're high enough off
the ground to avoid hitting anything when they do it's no problem.

Cars don't have that luxury.

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Regards,
Noddy.


From: Dingo on 24 Jun 2010 00:57
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:44:31 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote:

>Aircraft have a pretty distinct advantage over a car in the case of such
>stunts in that they're not fixed to a solid surface. They can drop a hundred
>feet in altitude during the manoeuvre and provided they're high enough off
>the ground to avoid hitting anything when they do it's no problem.
>
>Cars don't have that luxury.

Do you often state the BBO?
From: Noddy on 24 Jun 2010 03:24

"Dingo" <dingo(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Do you often state the BBO?

No. Why? Do you?

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Noddy.


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